Dynamic analysis of piezo-based accelerometer with asymmetric gapped cantilever array

Abstract

This paper focuses on the dynamic analysis of a novel piezo-based accelerometer with asymmetric gapped cantilever array. The accelerometer with asymmetric gapped cantilever, firstly published in Xu's work, exhibits significantly improved sensitivity. In this paper, in order to achieve wider dynamic response range, new structure of the accelerometer is proposed with asymmetric gapped cantilever array.